High speed big time classic.
Space Shuttle always good.
EATPM is pretty pricey these days

Swords of Furry and Space Station get my vote.

F14 Tomcat.

Taxi or Diner.

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Taxi all time classic for sure

Diner!

Pinbot would be my first suggestion...but diner, taxi, and high speed should all be on your radar. All are heavily underpriced games.

Banzai Run

Banzai Run
Taxi
Mousin Around
BK2K

That’s my short list. All outstanding gameplay IMO

dr dude and it's not even close

you haven't taken the hip-ocratic oath

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Pinbot is amazing.

Taxi is my favorite sys11.

Jackbot is 10x better than Pinbot.

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EATPM and The Bally Game Show would be at the top of my list. (I personally already have EATPM.) I have some kind of affinity for the Bally System 11 games with the top-speaker backbox. Except Pool Sharks. I just don't like that game. Hmmm.

EATPM is very stop start I found. I like Swords of Fury, Pinbot, BK2000 and Grand Lizard the most out of all the SYS 11s. Owned them all.

I was going to say f-14 because it’s fast and fun, but then read you have whirlwind so Taxi would be my pick to get.

FWIW, I've played them all aside from Transporter and BBBB, and my top three are:

1) Radical (with the lower carrot bats swapped out to standard length).
2) Swords of Fury
3) Whirlwind

Also the three I own. Perhaps that could change with more time on others, but these have always stood out to me.

I've tried to understand the love for Taxi, but it's never clicked for me.

Theming in general may hold me back on some, but I really like just about every System 11.

Mousin Around and Diner are two of my favs. Both fun to shoot and decent challenges.

That you don’t have? Top 5 in order would be:
1. Taxi
2. Swords of Fury
3. High Speed
4. Black Knight 2000
5. Pinbot

Honorable mention technically not system 11s that meet the criteria in spirit
Torpedo Alley
Funhouse

Taxi is the best.

Mousin is pretty good too.

SOF has boring play, I don't care what anyone says.

Pick up a road kings or big guns!

Transporter is super fun, I'll never sell mine, I'd also look at Grand Lizard, magna saves, cool sounds, fun game
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While I love Jackbot, it isn't a system 11 game.

F14 Tomcat is a necessity for a System 11 game collection. It's when pinballs got FAST. So fast that all the mechanisms kept breaking, and they had to build stronger parts because the EM-Compatible parts that used to survive years of play got destroyed by F14!

High speed is a lot more fun than you remember. It has this pulsing 'dun-dun-dun-dun' sound when the siren is about to get started that gets your pulse racing every time.

My friend James had a favorite game, and that was "Rock-Rock-Rockin' Rollergames'. Speed, interesting shots, unusual theme, challenging and fun playfield layout. For years I've felt that this game is just a bit underappreciated.

I like the 'complete the challenge' games. Taxi and Diner and Riverboat Gambler (magic!) are strongly goal-oriented, and if that's the kind of play that brings you joy, they would be really high on your list.

Elvira may be the best of the System 11 games. Some real magic here.

For my personal play, I like BK2000, but I wouldn't suggest it as the best of the system 11's... it's just hard enough for my personal skill level to make me keep coming back to it.

If you get Mousin' Around, put the back legs on 4x4 blocks to raise the playfield pitch as high as possible. Mousin' around becomes an astonishing play experience when it's set to too much playfield pitch. It's... 'peppy'.

You really can't go wrong, this is the first wave when pinballs got good... before the 90's when pinballs got REALLY good, starting with Funhouse.

For me, BK2000 would be top, but that's for me. For you?

EATPM, F14 and High Speed are top tier system 11's. Depending on your personal taste, most anything else is going to make you really happy.

This is a quick list that may not be complete pulled from the pinball list and price guide book from 2018, and the numbers are ROUNDED and MAY NOT BE ACCURATE, and you should buy their book if you want their real numbers.

Still,

High Speed, 18,000 made
Grand Lizard, 2750 made
Road Kings, 5500 made
Pinbot, 12,000 made
Millionaire, 3500 made
F14 Tomcat, 14,000 made
Fire, 7700 made
Big Guns, 5200 made
Space Station, 3800 made
Cyclone, 9400 made
Banzai Run 1700 made
Swords of Fury 2700 made
Taxi, 7300 made
Jokerz, 5400 made
Black Knight 2000, 5700 made
Earthshaker, 5300 made
Police Force 4700 made
Bad Cats, 2500 made
Whirlwind 7300 made
Rollergames, 5000 made
Diner, 3500 made
Riverboat Gambler, 3100 made

Transporter, 850 made
Elvira, 4000 made
Mousin Around, 3000 made
The Game Show, 2500 made
Pool Sharks 2250 made
Radical, 1300 made
Dr Dude, 3800 made
Bugs Bunny, 2250 made

RK>HS.

Road kings is a sleeper, and incredibly cheap. Put on a clear back ramp, and wow. The game is just damn fun. HS was great, but i find RK just better.

Pass on EATPM. It's not worth the price. The toys are lame and it gets old super fast.

MA is a great pin. I'd sell your bad cats too. Could fetch a LOT and i found it superrrr boring to play. I also do love cyclone. Pinbot should be a staple in all collections. To me, it IS pinball. You versus the machine. It's fantastically simple, yet hard. And ass kicker. With THE best music/sounds in all of pinball.

Whats SOW?

But its not pinbot.

I honestly like the pinbot theme/setting better.

Swords of Fury with a F.

I don’t think it’s a secret that the best value in Pinball is System 11s. But beyond that most of the era is fantastic and any one that comes up near you would be the one to get!
Pinbot is amazing. Period.
F-14 is still the fastest game I’ve played and I miss it dearly.
Swords of Fury is just bad ass.

Congrats!

Score! Such a fun game, my 4 year old calls it "the scary game" and loves playing it as much as me

good choice ! Transporter is really fun, and has variety as you have to shoot everywhere on the PF
btw the SF theme is pure '80 dope... SOS !!!

sold mine only because i had no space home